Litquake Year-Round 2019

Litquake and The Bindery present Evan James reading from his debut novel, Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe. 

In a return of a not-so-prodigal son, author Evan James who lived, wrote, and worked in SF for years before heading to the Iowa Writer’s Workshop to earn his MFA – all prior to landing on his feet in New York a few years later – comes to San Francisco on book tour for his comedy of manners debut novel that tells the story of a family summer on Puget Sound; conjuring a Wes Anderson meets John Updike vibe, it tells a tale filled with tennis, a personal assistant in search of romance, a preppy screenwriter with a penchant for pills, a landscape gardener named Marvelous Matthews, and a bewitching self-help author and others, all attempting to find that elusive something that will as Marie Kondo says, “spark their joy.”